Moviebeam, a Video On Demand services via local TV spectrum to OTA receiver is to show down the 2nd time. It was a failed project originally founded by Walt Disney sold for a big lost to the video rental chain Movie Gallery. The acquisition was a desperate attempt to utilize the same concept developing movie delivery system in digital platform. They paid $24 million for the acquisition cost, shelled out another 10 plus a 50 million cash infusion from investors for further implementation. All of that funding lasts about 9 months; they are informing current customer that the movie service will be out at December the 15th.
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The Movie Gallery is Out of Beam
Zonbu Notebook for sale in 2008
Zonbu, the company that brought you the uber cheap desktop that had a monthly subscription fee attached to it is now bringing you a notebook with the same deal. The biggest difference is you get a whole notebook instead of a dummy terminal with everything being based online.
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TiVo service enters Canada
Canadian can finally enjoy the famous TiVo service as TiVo announces its availability in Canada. Tivo Series 2DT is the only device that will be sold during the launch giving Canadian consumer up to 80 hours of recording time. The set top box sells for $199 at some stores such as Best Buys and Future Shop. As for the subscription rates, TiVo said it should be close to what US consumers are paying.
TiVo service goes live in Canada [via electronista]
AT&T getting a phone from Napster
Samsung is the maker, its their SLM phone, and it’s a flip phone. So, what are Samsung, Napster, and AT&T all bringing to the table that could possibly compete with the iPhone?
Well, not much really, I mean, first it’s a flip phone, so it loses all the touchscreen functionality of the iPhone, then its not an Apple product, so no OSX, no HTML browser, no YouTube app, no iTunes Store, and no Google Maps. It does have 3G (HSDPA), and support for all of AT&T’s features like their music and video services as well as mobile banking from a couple of banks, and obviously it has a mobile version of Naptser.
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Rumor: Microsoft looking to bring you OTA music purchases
Musiwave, a French company that offers AYCE (all you can eat) music services to cellular providers in Europe, might get purchased by Microsoft. If that were to happen, we might see that technology spread to Windows Live, WinMo, and maybe even the Zune.
God knows how long we’ve been waiting to see such a service available on the Windows Mobile platform, so that would be a blessing of its own. Then to see it spread to the Zune allowing you to connect to your favorite hotspot and download the tunes you just heard on the radio that would be awesome.
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Broward County Florida offering up online divorce
Now I know this isn’t all that pertinent to consumer technology, but it does represent the state of things in today’s web-based world. You can now, not only fill out the necessary forms through a series of questions, but you can also file them online.
It will cost you an extra $20 to file them online, which is why they give you option to print the completed forms out at the end of it all, but that’s all it takes. The grand total due when you file online is $364.
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Zune 2 already on sale
Apparently there are some Wal-Mart locations that are a bit over-zealous on their timeline for release of the Zune 2. So if you live in St. Louis or are able to get there, you might check out a certain Wal-Mart that has decided to start selling them about 12 days ahead of time.
I have an original Zune, and I consider it a serious mistake, especially after buying an iPod Touch, but I am going to wait till the new firmware with the new features is released, update it, and then see if that makes it any more worthy, but I doubt it. The Zune 2 is just this much closer to being worthy of the price they are asking, if they would just give it one truly unique and new feature, it would probably sell, but as it is, they are only giving it the capability to sync with your PC wirelessly, a capability it should have had with the first release.
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Do Not Track list for blocking certain cookies
C is for Cookie that’s good enough for me! Alright, so here is what is going on, there are 9 separate consumer and privacy groups that have asked the FTC (Federal Trade Commision) to make a “do not track” list of servers that give off cookies that they can block.
I have two issues with this, first off, you can already do this on your own, I know you can in FireFox, I just checked, you uncheck the box that says “accept cookies” and then you add exception for the sites like your bank and stuff where you need cookies, whammo, done. Second is, cookies are a necessary evil, they allow sites to target what adds you see, which causes you to click on those adds occasionally, which in the long run makes a lot of people various amounts of money.
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Palm Centro Review
Well, I got mine earlier today and have been playing with it; it’s the same color as the OnCentro one. I must say, I love it.
First off, I have a Helio Fin with a 3MP cam, and a Moto Q with a 1.3MP cam with flash, the Palm Centro, in my opinion, took a better picture than either of the other two. That amazed me.
Rumor: Sprint Nextel firing CEO by year end
Think you can help Sprint make some more dough and raise their market share? Well boy do we have the job opportunity of a lifetime for you; you see Sprint is looking to have a changing of the guard if you will.
It’s only a rumor because the people over at Sprint won’t say a thing pertaining to this story, but it was initially run by the WSJ so I am taking it as solid gold and the chiseler just hasn’t made it to the rock yet. The word is that chairman and CEO Gary Forsee will be taking an early retirement with the board reportedly citing slumping market share and stock values as compared to AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
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iPhoneSimFree – Unlocking your iPhone in 48 hours…Really?
Once again a service has popped up offering a software unlock for iPhones. The new addition is that this one may be legit, or it at least sounds sincere. The unlocking service comes from iphonesimfree.com.
They are offering up 3 free unlockings to the top three press to apply for one via their contact page. The unlocking is to come within 48 hours.
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The New Apple .Mac Webmail Ajaxified!
Apple will be launching the new .Mac webmail system soon. The new interface is looking much like what you’ve seen on OS X Mail application. Apple said the new webmail would have what they call Smart Refreshes, a function that will refresh only part of the page that needs updating; in another word, it’s AJAX!
“The new .Mac webmail is coming soon, and you'll feel like you've seen it before. With its smart use of the latest web technology, it'll remind you of the Mail application on your desktop, with a simple and elegant interface, drag-and-drop capability, built-in Address Book, and more.”
Apple .Mac Webmail [via apple]
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